I'm using a wacom intuos drawing tablet and I'm having some issues getting the lines I draw to turn out as it should.

Basically I want lines that start thin get to a normal thickness, then end thin. this white brush stroke is basically what I'd like to see, maybe even thinner at the edges would be nice: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5ibarbg4wizycg/photoshop%20brush.JPG?dl=0

But what I end up getting looks like a normal line, no variance during the stroke (I normally use a size 30, the 90 is just show the shape I'd like to get). I like to draw with lots of small strokes but its a bit messy with normal lines, if I had the lines start thinner that would be all the difference.

So I can change the photoshop brush settings and I can change the tablet's pressure settings but I can't get it to work out quite right. Can anyone help me with this? Let me know if this is too confusing.

in the brush-options you should have something like thickness- pen pressure or something?

the menu looks something like this;
-the one saying "size jitter", i think you change it to "pen pressure"
-if it doesn't work, it might be your wacom not working correctly with your photoshop?_________________Hapsiel.

Okay so I tried that and it kinda helps but I'm still getting roughly the same result regardless. It feels like the tablet really wants me to vary my pressure a lot even if I change my settings. I must use such a consistent pressure naturally for each stroke it still turns out very rounded. Not sure what I'll do to over come this.

Can you draw a stroke and post what it looks like? It might be because you're using a natural media brush, but in my experience, photoshop isn't great for making varied lines anyway- I wouldn't take the brush preview window as much of an indication of what you'll actually get._________________HF GalleryFollow me on Tumblr!

Can you draw a stroke and post what it looks like? It might be because you're using a natural media brush, but in my experience, photoshop isn't great for making varied lines anyway- I wouldn't take the brush preview window as much of an indication of what you'll actually get.

So Ideally I would like the beginning and the end of the stroke (or maybe just the end?) to taper off real quick because I like to use many small strokes so I wouldn't need perfect precision for each stroke placement. not really a problem for long continues strokes but I tend to get that "wavy" effect that looks bad. If I could stop that from happen, too, that would be great. I'm sure that will just take practice.

Konani wrote:

-your wacom tablet might also have a menu for adjusting the pressure-sensitivity of the tablet, so you might wanna try that too?

I did that along with your suggestion before and that has helped a little bit. It really only changes if I consciously change my drawing pressure, not so useful for quick movements. It's not quite what I want but maybe I'll just have to adapt.

Hmm, I tried using that same brush in PS myself, but it just looks like Konani's example. It might be worth trying a regular hard round brush with size jitter set to pen pressure, just to be sure it definitely isn't because you're using one of the natural media brushes (they're more trouble than they're worth, imo), but if you're having to really press hard to vary the line, it looks like the problem is something other than the brush itself.

Not sure how helpful this is, but consider giving Clip Studio a try. Their brush customization options are a lot more detailed when it comes to how each tool handles pressure sensitivity and brush size._________________DA // HF // Tumblr

My drive is up to date. I did some practices over the past few days and I'm getting more of what I was hoping for, though it still has a ways to go. One thing I change was that I set the texture option to pen pressure, and that helped a bit too.

I will keep working at it an hopefully get better over time. Thanks for all the feedback!

I try playing with the stiffness, I see that it could help a bit but I'll have to work on it.

curanto wrote:

Not sure how helpful this is, but consider giving Clip Studio a try. Their brush customization options are a lot more detailed when it comes to how each tool handles pressure sensitivity and brush size.

I did just try manga studio, and I played with it for a bit I can already see an improvement in my art. Idk why it seems to work better but it does, thanks for the suggestion!